Medical practice and related services

Tender description

NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking a provider for primary medical services at the Steeple Bumpstead Surgery, the services are advertised as a Branch Surgery. The Steeple Bumpstead Surgery is situated in the village of Steeple Bumpstead in Braintree district, Essex, England. The patient list has an even split of male and female patients with more patients aged 45-70 years and less patients aged 0-9 years and 25-44 years than the CCG and England averages. The current weighted list size is 2,454.80 as of the 1 October 2017. Services to be provided: — Essential services, — All additional services, — Enhanced services, — Core opening hours and service delivery from 8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (except statutory bank and public holidays). The full scope of the service can be found in the draft service specification available at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home. NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking a provider for primary medical services at the Steeple Bumpstead Surgery, the services are advertised as a Branch Surgery. The Steeple Bumpstead Surgery is situated in the village of Steeple Bumpstead in Braintree district, Essex, England. The patient list has an even split of male and female patients with more patients aged 45-70 years and less patients aged 0-9 years and 25-44 years than the CCG and England averages. The current weighted list size is 2,454.80 as of 1 October 2017. Services to be provided: — Essential services, — All additional services, — Enhanced services, — Core opening hours and service delivery from 8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (except statutory bank and public holidays) West Essex CCG is looking for a patient-centred approach to care delivery that is user friendly and culturally sensitive and encompasses national and local public health targets. We are also looking for providers who can demonstrate a willingness to deliver a number of key design principles e.g. improving access and promoting prevention and self-care, as part of core service delivery. The full scope of the service can be found in the draft service specification available at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home The provider will be needed to provide the full range of primary medical services from 1 June 2018. Following responses to stakeholder engagement, the commissioner will be contracting for the services using; the NHS General Medical Services (GMS); or the NHS Personal Medical Services (PMS); or the NHS Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contract. The contract form will be dependent on the type of existing contract held by the successful bidder. Subject to this contract form, the contract period will be an initial 3 years with the option to extend by up to a further 2 years. Based on current patient list and scope of services the annual contract value is £280k per annum (excluding set-up costs). Any future contract value is expected to be in line with any rise or fall in the patient list size, as may be the case. The total value including all options, set-up costs and possible extensions is £1.4m. This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central & West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the commissioners.